Good analysis indeed. Though Elop insisted that Nokia would not dump Symbian, but almost all financial analysts in general believe that Nokia _must_ dump Symbian, and that's a huge impact on the financial future. May be they know deep down their heart that Elop is a pathetic liar, or Microsoft has a track records of manipulating its alliance to its favour, or both.

Few optimistic financial analysts (and many tmo crowds here) thought the alliance means diversity of production and diversity must be good.

However, the track records of Microsoft tell us that no MS alliance are allowed to diversify. Microsoft has their ways to control their alliance which I've mentioned before.